Perfume Quotes

342 Perfume quotes by 274 unique authors

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own — Fernando Pessoa
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted… — Ellen DeGeneres
Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed… — Karen Russell
He (Michael) was gone in a whisper of air, hardly making any sound at all, and Claire shivered and leaned against Shane’s solid, very human… — Rachel Caine
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. — Heinrich Heine
For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room.… — Stephenie Meyer
As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then… — Cornell Woolrich
How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls. — Rachel Caine
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne… — Emma Forrest
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind… — Edwin Way Teale
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. — William Shakespeare
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have… — Anais Nin
I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something… — Gail Carriger
The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all… — Edward Abbey
Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a… — Catherynne M. Valente
I relaxed. “I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you spent some time… — Abbi Glines
A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings. — Holly Black
You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist." She snarled. Heh. — Ilona Andrews
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and… — Janette Rallison
Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk… — Sherry Argov
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle,… — John Crowley
I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. — Maggie Stiefvater
No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force… — Lorrie Moore

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